Names of Curaçao CW
CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) records Maria as the commonest given name in Curaçao.
Written in Dutch, English, pap.
- Population
- 151K
- Official registers
- 3
- Name forms recorded
- 1
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Curaçao
3 naming traditions are in use in Curaçao, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Curaçao
This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.
Scripts & spelling
Registers & sources
Official registers
- CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023)2023headline (given)
Central Bureau of Statistics Curaçao (CBS). Counts: residents. given. 24 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Top-30 most common first names among living residents WITH COUNTS by sex (Maria 1,647 F; Jose 723 ...). Sourced from the Kranshi civil registry. HTML page scraped via Firecrawl. Re-checked 2026-08-06 (task #42 sweep) for a live per-name query tool beyond this published top-30 list: cbs.cw and the Kranshi (Bureau Burgerlijke Stand en Bevolkingsregister) population-register service at loketdigital.gobiernu.cw only offer in-person/appointment record requests and certificate extracts, no online per-name search or count endpoint. No new source added.
Last verified 2026-06-09.
- A list of the most common first names in Curaçao published by the Central Bureau of Statistics.2023not a population count
www.cbs.cw. Counts: not recorded. given. 23 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. A list of the most common first names in Curaçao published by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
- The page discusses the historical significance of female names from slavery in Curaçao, published by Caribisch Netwerk.1863not a population count
caribischnetwerk.ntr.nl. Counts: not recorded. surname. 10 forms. 1863. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page discusses the historical significance of female names from slavery in Curaçao, published by Caribisch Netwerk.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Dutch Antillean Surnamesgenealogy
- From language of the slaves to language of allweb
- Papiamentoencyclopaedia
- Papiamento Submitted Surnamesnamesite
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- What is the most common given name in Curaçao?
- Jose, according to CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023) (2023), with 715 bearers recorded among boys.
- Is there one naming system in Curaçao?
- No — 3 are described on this page (Dutch, Papiamento, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Curaçao”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CW (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from CBS Curaçao — Most common first names by gender (2023).